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KB Gear's New 'Jam' Products Dramatically Expand and Enhance Ways to Get Connected Online

LOS ANGELES, May 11 /PRNewswire/NEWSdesk -- Today at E3* 2000 in Los Angeles, KB Gear Interactive unveiled four computer products that are brimming with ways to get connected online. The four products, all part of KB Gear's new "Jam" line, offer countless cool ways to create, exchange and obtain photographs, music and graphics online.

As part of the "Jam" line, KB Gear also will introduce a new web site, jamonline.com (set to launch in August 2000), to enhance the features of its new products and to help "Jam" product users get connected to the digital world.

The new "Jam" line includes:

  • JamCam 3.0 (SRP: $99), a revved-up, higher performing version of KB Gear's top-selling, award-winning, 640 x 480 digital camera that achieves near mega-pixel quality pictures with PhotoSharp enhancement software. This new version has an expandable memory slot and an automatic flash.
  • JamP3 (SRP: $99), an MP3 player priced less than $100 that stores up to an hour of music with the option to add unlimited sound via an expandable memory slot. It also features a hip, portable design and an easy online and software interface to burn songs from CDs and MP3 internet sites.
  • Jam-It! (SRP: $49.99), a revolutionary digital sound lab that fits in the palm of your hand and features countless options to record, morph and sync voice and sound with digital pictures.
  • Jam Studio (SRP: $69.99), a complete web graphics tool kit that contains a top-rated graphics tablet and easy-to-use software to create great web pages and cool graphics.

The "Jam" products, available in stores in the U.S. and Canada in August 2000, are easy to use and designed to help non-techies get connected online. In two or three easy steps, users can snap, load and edit photos with JamCam 3.0; choose music from the Internet or CDs, sort it and load it onto Jam-P3; record, warp and sync voice or songs with Jam-It!; and create graphics, arrange and publish them on a web site with Jam Studio.

The "Jam" products also are designed to be used with each other. For example, Jam-It! features an option to sync digital pictures taken with JamCam by adding wacky lips, creating fun, sound-filled digital images. Jam Studio can double as a photo re-touching tool to enhance and alter digital pictures taken with JamCam.

To enhance its "Jam" products, KB Gear will host a number of "Jam-related" activities on the web site jamonline.com. Online photo sharing and storing, music downloads, voice and drawing chat rooms and other products and services will be available at jamonline.com exclusively for people who have purchased "Jam" products.

"Teens are online in record numbers and we want to not only encourage positive experiences, but to provide them with the right tools to help than do more than they would ever expect to do online," said Jim Triggs, KB Gear President and CTO. "Independently, our 'Jam' products are great interactive tools at a great price. But their ability to interact with each other in exciting and easy-to-use ways greatly enhances and expands the possibilities of online interaction."

At E3 2000, KB Gear also unveiled a new addition to its Little Tikes Interactive products for young computer trekkers: the 3-D Cruiser(TM) (SRP: $49), one of the first computer steering wheels built especially for ages 2-8. The 3-D Cruiser(TM) comes with customized software with true 3-D graphics, allowing children to cruise through a virtual world of land, sea and sky adventures as they learn about the world around them.

Minneapolis-based KB Gear Interactive is the developer of award-winning computer products suitable for all ages. Its proprietary "Jam" brand is geared for teens and tweens. Its products licensed for Disney and Little Tikes are made for younger computer trekkers. During 1999, KB Gear's products were sold in more than 14,000 retail storefronts and extensively online. KB Gear is a privately held company, headquartered at 10250 Valley View Road, Suite 137, Eden Prairie, Minn., 55344. Product information is available by calling +1 800-926-3066 or on the company's website: http://www.kbgear.com

* The 3 in E3 should always be read as a superscript

SOURCE KB Gear Interactive Web site: http://www.kbgear.com CONTACT: Pete Stoddart, +1 612-656-6023, petestoddart@kbgear.com , or Kathy Graves, +1 612-928-7003, kjgraves@aol.com , both of KB Gear Interactive IN: CPR REA MLM

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